Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts

Animal Studies in Modern Worlds

Wendy Woodward, Susan McHugh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 275 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-86024-4 (ISBN)

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This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures. From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art, film, and literature, the volume's unique emphasis on Southern Africa and North America - historical loci of the greatest ranges of species and linguistic diversity - help to situate how indigenous knowledges of human-animal relations are being adapted to modern conditions of life shared across species lines.

Susan McHugh is the author of Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (2011) as well as Dog (2004). She co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies (2014), and Literary Animals Look, a special issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (2013). Wendy Woodward is the author of The Animal Gaze: Animal Subjectivities in Southern African Narratives (2008). She co-edited a special issue of Journal of Literary Studies entitled Figuring the Animal in Post-apartheid South Africa (2014) and has published three volumes of poetry.

Editors' introduction: Wendy Woodward and Susan McHugh.- Chapter 1 Qing and the animals of the Drakensberg-Maloti: Michael Wessels.- Chapter 2 //Kabbo sings the animals: Dan Wylie.- Chapter 3 Interrogating the sacred art of Vetkat Regopstaan Boesman Kruiper: Richard Alan Northover.- Chapter 4 Spirit guards: A squad of ceramic dogs in South Africa: Nicolene Swanepoel.- Chapter 5 Tricksters, animals, new materialities, and indigenous wisdoms: Delphi Carstens.- Chapter 6 The porosity of human/ nonhuman beings in Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Anansi Boys: Alexandra Wheeler.- Chapter 7 Animated animals: Allegories of transformation in Khumba: Hermann Wittenberg.- Chapter 8 Magic wells, the stream, and the flow: The promise of literary animal studies: Marion Copeland.- Chapter 9 Border crossings: Animals, tricksters, and shape-shifters in modern Native American fiction: Daniel G. Payne.- Chapter 10 I'm mad you're mad we are all mad: The Alice Diaries: Wilma Cruise.- Chapter 11 'The only facts are supernatural ones': Dreaming animals and trauma in some contemporary Southern African texts: Wendy Woodward.- Chapter 12 Cross-pollinating: Indigenous Knowledges of Extinction and Genocide in Honeybee Fictions: Susan McHugh.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.9.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 275 p. 22 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	384 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	African literature • Art History • Colonialism • Literature • Myth • North American literature
ISBN-10	3-319-86024-0 / 3319860240
ISBN-13	978-3-319-86024-4 / 9783319860244
Zustand	Neuware